List of applications/Other

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Organization

CalDAV/CardDAV servers

  • Baïkal — A lightweight CalDAV+CardDAV server.
https://sabre.io/baikal/ || baikalAUR
  • kcaldav — Simple, safe, minimal CalDAV server.
https://kristaps.bsd.lv/kcaldav || kcaldavAUR
  • Radicale — Free and Open-Source CalDAV and CardDAV Server.
https://radicale.org || radicale
  • xandikos — A lightweight yet complete CardDAV/CalDAV server that backs onto a Git repository.
https://www.xandikos.org || xandikos-gitAUR

Personal information managers

These applications support time, task and contacts management.

  • Evolution — Personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring and address book functionality. Part of gnome-extra.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution || evolution
  • Kontact — Integrated solution to your personal information management.
https://kontact.kde.org/ || kontact
  • Osmo — GTK personal organizer, which includes calendar, tasks manager and address book modules.
http://osmo-pim.sourceforge.net || osmo
https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ || seamonkeyAUR
  • Thunderbird with Lightning — Extension to Mozilla Thunderbird that provides calendar and task support.
https://www.thunderbird.net/calendar/ || thunderbird

Time management

Console

  • Calcurse — Text-based ncurses calendar and scheduling system (supports CalDAV)
https://calcurse.org || calcurse
  • ccal — A console program which writes a calendar together with Chinese calendar to standard output.
http://ccal.chinesebay.com/ccal/ccal.htm || ccalAUR
  • khal — Command-line (non-interactive) and ncurses (interactive) calendar system (supports CalDAV)
https://github.com/pimutils/khal || khal
  • mail2rem — Small script for importing .ics calendars from Maildir to Remind calendar.
https://github.com/esovetkin/mail2rem || mail2rem-gitAUR
  • Pal — Very lightweight calendar with both interactive and non-interactive interfaces.
https://palcal.sourceforge.net/ || palAUR
  • pcal — A tool to create pdf calendars from pcal input which can be exported by some calendar programs.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcal/ || pcalAUR
  • Remind — Highly sophisticated text-based calendaring and notification system.
https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/ || remind
  • When — Simple personal calendar program.
http://lightandmatter.com/when/when.html || when
  • Wyrd — Text-based front-end to Remind, a calendar and alarm program used on UNIX and Linux computers.
https://gitlab.com/wyrd-calendar/wyrd || wyrdAUR

Graphical

  • chinese-calendar — Chinese traditional calendar for Ubuntu Kylin.
https://launchpad.net/chinese-calendar/ || chinese-calendar
  • CoreTime — Very simple Clock/Calendar application which shows a clock, supports alarms, reminders, a stop watch and a timer. Part of C-Suite.
https://cubocore.org/[dead link 2023-06-17 ⓘ] || coretimeAUR
  • Day Planner — Program designed to help you easily plan and manage your time. It can manage appointments, birthdays and more.
https://www.day-planner.org/ || dayplannerAUR
  • Deepin Calendar — Calendar application for Deepin.
https://www.deepin.org/en/original/dde-calendar/ || deepin-calendar
  • etmtk (Event and Task Manager) — Simple application with a "Getting Things Done!" approach to handling events, tasks, activities, reminders and projects.
https://people.duke.edu/~dgraham/ETMtk/ || etmtkAUR
  • Gahshomar — Persian (Jalali/Farsi) calendar.
https://www.gahshomar.org/gahshomar/ || gahshomarAUR
  • GNOME Calendar — Calendar application for GNOME. Part of gnome.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Calendar || gnome-calendar
  • KAlarm — Personal alarm message, command and email scheduler, part of kde-pim.
https://apps.kde.org/kalarm/ || kalarm
https://kontact.kde.org/components/korganizer || korganizer
  • Kalendar — A calendar application using Akonadi to sync with external services (NextCloud, GMail, ...).
https://invent.kde.org/pim/kalendar || kalendar[broken link: replaced by merkuro]
  • Nextcloud Calendar — Calendar app for Nextcloud.
https://github.com/nextcloud/calendar || nextcloud-app-calendar
  • Outspline — Extensible outliner with advanced time management features, supporting events with complex recurrence schemes.
https://kynikos.github.io/outspline/ || outsplineAUR
  • TkRemind — Sophisticated calendar and alarm program.
https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/ || remind

Timers

Countdown timers and stopwatch

  • arttime — Clock, timer, pattern-based time manager, ASCII art viewer. Set a one-off, multiple, repeating, pattern-based timers.
https://github.com/poetaman/arttime || arttime-gitAUR
  • GNOME Clocks — Clocks application for GNOME, including alarm, stopwatch and timer functionality. Part of gnome.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Clocks || gnome-clocks
  • Hourglass — Simple time keeping application designed for elementary OS.
https://github.com/sgpthomas/hourglass || hourglass-gitAUR
  • Kronometer — Stopwatch application for KDE.
https://apps.kde.org/kronometer/ || kronometer
  • KTeaTime — Handy timer for steeping tea.
https://apps.kde.org/kteatime/ || kteatime
  • pystopwatch — Stopwatch written in Python with a clock and two countdown functions that can minimize to the tray.
https://xyne.dev/projects/pystopwatch/ || pystopwatchAUR
  • snore — A program like sleep, but with feedback.
https://github.com/clamiax/snore || snore-gitAUR
  • termdown — Countdown timer and stopwatch in your terminal.
https://github.com/trehn/termdown || termdown

Break timers

  • arttime — Clock, timer, pattern-based time manager, ASCII art viewer. Create any pattern of times to take breaks, check example arttime -k timer.drinkwater_8b.
https://github.com/poetaman/arttime || arttime-gitAUR
  • GNOME Break Timer — Keeps track of how much you are using the computer, and it reminds you to take regular breaks.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/BreakTimer || gnome-break-timer
  • RSI Break — Takes care of your health and regularly breaks your work to avoid repetitive strain injury (RSI).
https://apps.kde.org/rsibreak/ || rsibreak
  • Safe Eyes — Tool to reduce and prevent repetitive strain injury (RSI).
https://slgobinath.github.io/SafeEyes/ || safeeyesAUR
  • Work-break — Work and rest time balancer taking into account your current and today strain.
https://github.com/ShadoySV/work-break/ || work-breakAUR
  • Workrave — Program that assists in the recovery and prevention of RSI on Xorg.
https://workrave.org/ || workrave

Pomodoro timers

See Wikipedia:Pomodoro Technique for an introduction.

  • arttime — Clock, timer, pattern-based time manager, ASCII art viewer. Pomodoro is just one of the inbuilt programs, check example arttime -k timer.pomodoro4learn_8b.
https://github.com/poetaman/arttime || arttime-gitAUR
  • flow — Pomodoro app that blocks distractions while you work.
https://github.com/iamsergio/flow-pomodoro || flow-pomodoroAUR
  • Gnomato — Timer for the Pomodoro Technique.
https://github.com/diegorubin/gnomato || gnomatoAUR
  • GNOME Pomodoro — Time management utility for GNOME based on the Pomodoro Technique.
https://gnomepomodoro.org/ || gnome-shell-pomodoroAUR
  • Pilorama — Eye-candy timeboxing tool written in QML
https://github.com/eplatonoff/pilorama || pilorama-gitAUR
  • Pomodoro-Logger — Pomodoro timer and logger with Kanban board for task management and tracking.
https://github.com/zxch3n/PomodoroLogger || pomodoro-loggerAUR
  • potato-c — A minimal and efficient pomodoro timer with server-client structure.
https://github.com/nimaaskarian/potato-c || potato-cAUR
  • Solanum — A pomodoro timer for the GNOME desktop
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/solanum || solanumAUR
  • Tomate — Timer for the Pomodoro Technique.
https://github.com/eliostvs/tomate-gtk || tomate-gtkAUR
  • Tomato — Simple, usable and efficient pomodoro app designed for elementaryOS.
https://github.com/luizaugustomm/tomato || tomato-gitAUR
  • Tomighty — Desktop timer for the Pomodoro Technique.
https://tomighty.github.io || tomightyAUR

Time trackers

  • ActivityWatch — A self/local-hosted, cross-platform, client-server, privacy-focused active window tracker.
https://github.com/ActivityWatch/activitywatch || activitywatch-binAUR
  • Hamster — Time tracking application that helps you to keep track on how much time you have spent during the day on activities you choose to track.
http://projecthamster.org/ || hamster-time-tracker
  • Kapow — Punch clock to track time spent on projects.
https://gottcode.org/kapow/ || kapowAUR
  • KTimeTracker — Todo management and time tracking application.
https://apps.kde.org/ktimetracker/ || ktimetracker
  • Tider — Lightweight time tracking application (GTK)
https://github.com/naspeh/tider || tider-gitAUR
  • Timenaut — Time tracker that tracks active windows and lets you sort them into categories. Based on the Electron platform.
https://timenaut.app/ || timenaut-appimageAUR
  • Timewarrior — A command-line time-tracking application.
https://timewarrior.net/ || timew
  • Timetrack — Simple time-tracking app for GNOME.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/danigm/timetrack || timetrackAUR
  • Wakatime — Open source plugins for metrics about your programming with intuitive web-interface.
https://wakatime.com/ || wakatime

Task management

Console

  • c3 — A multi-platform TUI todo manager that extends calcurse's todo format to have a tree-like dependency structure, and even more!
https://github.com/nimaaskarian/c3 || c3AUR
  • dijo — Scriptable, curses-based, digital habit tracker
https://github.com/nerdypepper/dijo || dijoAUR
  • Taskbook — Tasks, boards and notes for the command-line habitat.
https://github.com/klauscfhq/taskbook || taskbookAUR
  • Taskell — A command-line kanban board/task manager.
https://github.com/smallhadroncollider/taskell || taskell
  • Taskwarrior — Command-line To-do list application with support for lua customization and more.
https://taskwarrior.org/ || task
  • todoman — Command-line To-do list manager (supports CalDAV)
https://github.com/pimutils/todoman || todoman
  • Todo.txt — Small command-line To-do manager.
https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-cli/ || todotxtAUR
  • TuDu — Ncurses-based hierarchical To-do list manager with vim-like keybindings.
https://code.meskio.net/tudu/ || tuduAUR

Graphical

  • Agenda — Simple, fast, no-nonsense to-do (task) list for elementary OS.
https://github.com/dahenson/agenda || agenda-gitAUR
  • Effitask — Graphical task manager, based on the Todo.txt format.
https://github.com/sanpii/effitask || effitaskAUR
  • Getting Things GNOME! — Personal tasks and TODO list items organizer for GNOME inspired by the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology.
https://github.com/getting-things-gnome/gtg || gtgAUR
  • Go For It! — Simple and stylish productivity app, featuring a to-do list, merged with a timer that keeps your focus on the current task. To-do lists are stored in the Todo.txt format.
https://manuelkehl.de/projects/go-for-it/ || go-for-it-gitAUR
  • Endeavour — Personal task manager for GNOME. Part of gnome-extra.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Todo || endeavour
https://github.com/nextcloud/tasks || nextcloud-app-tasks
  • Planner — Task manager with Todoist support.
https://useplanner.com/ || planifyAUR
https://wpitchoune.net/ptask/ || ptaskAUR
  • QTodoTxt — UI client for todo.txt files.
https://github.com/mNantern/QTodoTxt || qtodotxtAUR[broken link: package not found]
  • sleek — todo.txt app with modern GUI. Based on the Electron platform.
https://github.com/ransome1/sleek/ || sleekAUR
  • Task Coach — Simple todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists.
https://www.taskcoach.org || taskcoachAUR[broken link: package not found]
  • TickTick — Is a simple and effective to-do list and task manager app with seamless cloud synchronization across all your devices
https://ticktick.com/ || ticktickAUR
  • Tasque — Easy quick task management app written in C#.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/Tasque || tasqueAUR[broken link: package not found]
  • Zanshin — To-do management application for KDE.
https://zanshin.kde.org/ || zanshin

Contacts management

Console

  • Abook — Text-based contacts manager designed for use with mutt.
http://abook.sourceforge.net/ || abookAUR
  • Khard — Command-line addressbook that is able to sync with CardDAV-servers.
https://github.com/scheibler/khard || khard

Graphical

  • Communicator — Integrated address book and dialer application features the search for and view of contacts, edit contact details, and make new contacts, favorites, and dialer pad.
https://mauikit.org/apps/communicator/ || communicator
  • GNOME Contacts — Contacts manager for GNOME. Part of gnome.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Contacts || gnome-contacts
  • KAddressBook — Address book manager for KDE.
https://kontact.kde.org/components/kaddressbook || kaddressbook
  • LDAP Administration Tool — Browse LDAP-based directories and add/edit/delete entries contained within.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ldap-at/ || latAUR
  • Nextcloud Contacts — Contacts app for Nextcloud.
https://github.com/nextcloud/contacts || nextcloud-app-contacts
  • phpLDAPadmin — LDAP client webapp. Its hierarchical tree-viewer and advanced search functionality make it intuitive to browse and administer your LDAP directory.
https://phpldapadmin.sourceforge.net/ || phpldapadmin
https://gitlab.com/CardBook/CardBook || thunderbird

Financial management

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of accounting software.

Console

  • Beancount — A double-entry bookkeeping computer language that lets you define financial transaction records in a text file, read them in memory, generate a variety of reports from them, and provides a web interface.
https://beancount.github.io/ || beancountAUR
  • esniper — Simple, lightweight tool for sniping eBay auctions.
https://esniper.sourceforge.net/ || esniperAUR
  • hledger — An accounting program for tracking money, time, or any other commodity, using double-entry accounting and a simple, editable file format. hledger is inspired by and largely compatible with ledger.
https://hledger.org/ || hledger
  • Ledger — Ledger is a powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line.
https://www.ledger-cli.org/ || ledger

Graphical

  • Eqonomize! — Cross-platform personal accounting software, with focus on efficiency and ease of use for the small household economy.
https://eqonomize.github.io/ || eqonomizeAUR
  • ERPNext — Free and open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).
https://github.com/frappe/erpnext || erpnextAUR
  • GnuCash — Financial application that implements a double-entry book-keeping system with features for small business accounting.
https://www.gnucash.org/ || gnucash
  • Grisbi — Personal finance system which manages third party, expenditure and receipt categories, as well as budgetary lines, financial years, and other information that makes it suitable for associations.
https://www.grisbi.org/ || grisbiAUR
  • HomeBank — Easy to use finance manager that can analyse your personal finance in detail using powerful filtering tools and graphs.
http://homebank.free.fr/ || homebank
  • KMyMoney — Personal finance manager that operates in a similar way to Microsoft Money. It supports different account types, categorisation of expenses and incomes, reconciliation of bank accounts and import/export to the “QIF” file format.
https://kmymoney.org/ || kmymoney
  • Kresus — Self-hosted personal finance management software. It automatically retrieves every day all your new bank transactions and lets you categorize them, study them through charts and establish a budget.
https://kresus.org/en/ || kresus
  • Manager — Proprietary accounting software for small business.
https://www.manager.io/ || manager-accountingAUR
  • Money Manager EX — An easy-to-use personal finance suite
https://www.moneymanagerex.org/ || moneymanagerexAUR
  • Odoo — Open source ERP system purely in Python. Previously known as OpenERP.
https://www.odoo.com/ || odooAUR
  • Skrooge — Personal finances manager for the KDE desktop.
https://skrooge.org/ || skrooge

Cryptocurrency

  • ARK Desktop Wallet — Wallet for ARK.
https://github.com/ArkEcosystem/desktop-wallet || ark-desktopAUR
  • Atomic Wallet — Manage your Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Litecoin, XLM, and over 300 other coins and tokens.
https://atomicwallet.io/ || atomicwalletAUR
  • Bitcoin Core — Connect to the Bitcoin P2P Network.
https://bitcoincore.org/ || bitcoin-qt
  • Cake Wallet — Multicurrency wallet.
https://github.com/cake-tech/cake_wallet || cake-wallet-binAUR
  • Coinomi — Securely store, manage and exchange Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more than 1,770 other blockchain assets.
https://www.coinomi.com/ || coinomi-wallet-binAUR
  • Cointop — Terminal based application for tracking cryptocurrencies.
https://cointop.sh/ || cointopAUR
  • Electrum — Lightweight Bitcoin client.
https://electrum.org/ || electrum
https://www.etherwall.com/ || etherwall
  • Exodus — All-in-one proprietary application to secure, manage, and exchange blockchain assets. Based on the Electron platform.
https://www.exodus.io/ || exodusAUR
https://github.com/ethereum/mist || mistAUR
  • Monero — Monero wallet.
https://getmonero.org/ || monero-gui, monero
  • Dogecoin Core — Dogecoin Core wallet, Allows you to connect to the Dogecoin P2P Network.
https://dogecoin.com/ || dogecoin-qtAUR, multidogeAUR

Project management

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of project management software.

  • Calligra Plan — Project management application, which is intended for managing moderately large projects with multiple resources.
https://www.calligra.org/plan/ || calligra-plan
  • GanttProject — Project scheduling application featuring gantt chart, resource management, calendaring.
https://www.ganttproject.biz/ || ganttprojectAUR
  • Notion-app — A note-taking software and project management software that is used for note-taking, task management, project management, knowledge management, and personal knowledge management.
https://www.notion.so/ || notion-appAUR
  • Planner — Project management application for GNOME.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Planner || plannerAUR
https://www.projectlibre.com/product/projectlibre-open-source || projectlibreAUR
  • TaskJuggler — Modern and powerful project management tool. Its new approach to project planning and tracking is more flexible and superior to the commonly used Gantt chart editing tools.
https://taskjuggler.org/ || taskjugglerAUR

Recipe management

  • GNOME Recipes — Recipe management application for GNOME. Part of gnome-extra.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Recipes || gnome-recipes
  • Gourmand — Simple but powerful recipe-managing application.
https://github.com/GourmandRecipeManager/gourmand || gourmandAUR
  • KRecipes — KDE application designed to make organizing your personal recipes collection fast and easy.
https://apps.kde.org/krecipes/ || krecipesAUR[broken link: package not found]

Education

See also List of games#Education.

  • Moodle — Open-source software learning management system.
https://moodle.org/ || moodleAUR
  • OpenBoard — Interactive whiteboard software for schools and universities.
https://openboard.ch/index.en.html || openboardAUR

Flashcards

See also Wikipedia:List of flashcard software.

  • Anki — Intelligent spaced-repetition memory training program.
https://apps.ankiweb.net/ || ankiAUR
  • jVLT — Vocabulary learning tool.
https://www.linuxlinks.com/jVLT/ || jvltAUR
  • KWordQuiz — Tool that gives you a powerful way to master new vocabularies. Part of kde-education.
https://apps.kde.org/kwordquiz/ || kwordquiz
  • Mnemosyne — Flash-card tool which optimizes your learning process.
https://mnemosyne-proj.org/ || mnemosyneAUR
  • Parley — Program to help you memorize things. It uses the spaced repetition learning method, also known as flash cards. Part of kde-education.
https://apps.kde.org/parley/ || parley
  • Pauker — Flash card based learning tool using shortterm and longterm memory training.
http://pauker.sourceforge.net/ || paukerAUR
  • OpenTeacher — Open source application that helps you learn a variety of subjects
http://openteacher.org/en/ || openteacherAUR[broken link: package not found]
  • StudyFlash — Learn flashcards inside your terminal
https://github.com/Alone2/studyFlash || studyflashAUR

Touch typing

Console

  • Dvorak 7min — Simple ncurses-based typing tutor for those trying to become fluent with the Dvorak keyboard layout.
https://github.com/yaychris/dvorak7min || dvorak7minAUR
  • GNU Typist — Universal typing tutor.
https://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/ || gtypistAUR
  • psani-profi — Program that will teach you touchtyping (Czech).
https://www.sallyx.org/sally/psani-vsemi-deseti/ || psani-profiAUR
  • Typing Trainer — ncurses-based typing trainer program that knows the English and Hungarian languages.
http://tpgt.sourceforge.net/ || tpgtAUR[broken link: package not found]
  • Typespeed — Test your typing speed, and get your fingers' CPS.
http://typespeed.sourceforge.net/ || typespeedAUR
  • typiskt — touchtype training in the terminal (Bash).
https://github.com/budlabs/typiskt || typisktAUR

Graphical

  • Amphetype — Layout-agnostic typing program aimed at people who do not need an on-screen keyboard, but would still like to improve their speed and accuracy.
https://code.google.com/p/amphetype/ || amphetype-svnAUR[broken link: package not found]
  • Klavaro — Teaching touch typing that intends to be keyboard and language independent.
https://klavaro.sourceforge.io/ || klavaro
https://apps.kde.org/ktouch/ || ktouch
  • TIPP10 — Intelligent touch typing tutor.
https://www.tipp10.com/ || tipp10
  • TypingTest — Typing test desktop program with a large amount of customization.
https://github.com/laelath/typingtest || typingtest-gitAUR

Accessibility

See Accessibility for tips on operating the desktop and Category:Accessibility for all available articles. See also On-screen keyboards.

Speech synthesizers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of speech synthesizers and listening comparison of the different engines.

  • Ekho — Chinese text-to-speech (TTS) software for Cantonese, Mandarin, Zhaoan Hakka, Tibetan, Ngangien and Korean.
https://eguidedog.net/ekho.php || ekhoAUR
  • eSpeak — Compact speech synthesizer for more than 50 languages.
https://espeak.sourceforge.net/ || espeakAUR
  • eSpeak NG — Fork of eSpeak (due to inactivity of original maintainer).
https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng || espeak-ng
  • Festival — General framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole it offers full text to speech.
https://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ || festival
  • Flite — Lightweight speech synthesis engine.
http://festvox.org/flite/ || flite
  • Gespeaker — GTK frontend for espeak. It allows you to play a text in many languages with settings for voice, pitch, volume and speed.
https://muflone.com/gespeaker/english/ || gespeakerAUR
  • KMouth — Speech synthesizer frontend which enables persons that cannot speak to let their computer speak.
https://apps.kde.org/kmouth/ || kmouth
  • MaryTTS — Multilingual text-to-speech synthesis platform written in Java.
http://mary.dfki.de/[dead link 2023-10-29 ⓘ] || maryttsAUR
  • MBROLA — Proprietary phonemes-to-audio program which supports more than 70 languages. Mbrola-voices can also be used with eSpeak.
http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html || mbrolaAUR
  • Mimic — Text-to-speech voice synthesis from the Mycroft project (based on Flite).
https://mimic.mycroft.ai/ || mimicAUR
  • Open JTalk — Japanese text-to-speech synthesis system.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-jtalk/ || open-jtalkAUR
  • Orca — Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired, using eSpeak (via Speech Dispatcher). Part of gnome.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca || orca
  • RHVoice — Cross-platform (including Android) text-to-speech from a blind Russian-speaking developer, based on HTS (ru, ka, uk, ky, tt, en, pt, eo)
https://github.com/RHVoice/RHVoice || rhvoice
  • SOPS — Provides a simple way to write custom plugins for screen reader Orca.
https://github.com/chrys87/simple-orca-plugin-system || simpleorcapluginsystemAUR
  • Speech dispatcher — Common interface to speech synthesis. It has backends for eSpeak, Festival, and a few other speech synthesizers.
https://freebsoft.org/speechd || speech-dispatcher
  • SVOX Pico — The text-to-speech engine used on Android phones. (en-US, en-GB, de-DE, es-ES, fr-FR, it-IT)
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/svox/+/master || svox-pico-binAUR[broken link: package not found]

Speech recognition

See also Wikipedia:Speech recognition software for Linux.

  • Julius — Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition engine.
https://github.com/julius-speech/julius || juliusAUR
  • Kaldi — Speech recognition toolkit.
https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi || kaldiAUR
  • Kalliope — Modular always-on voice controlled personal assistant designed for home automation.
https://kalliope-project.github.io/ || kalliopeAUR
  • Kaylee — Somewhat fancy voice command recognition program that performs actions when a user speaks loosely preset sentences.
https://github.com/Ratfink/kaylee || kayleevcAUR
  • Mycroft — Hackable voice assistant.
https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core || mycroft-coreAUR
  • Numen — Voice control for handsfree computing
https://sr.ht/~geb/numen/ || numenAUR
  • Simon — Speech recognition program that can replace your mouse and keyboard.
https://simon.kde.org/ || simon-kf5-gitAUR[broken link: package not found]
  • nerd-dictation — Light weight manually activated dictation using the VOSK-API
https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation || nerd-dictation-gitAUR

Screen magnifiers

  • boomer — Zoomer application for Linux.
https://github.com/tsoding/boomer || boomer-gitAUR
  • KMag — Small KDE utility to magnify a part of the screen.
https://apps.kde.org/kmag/ || kmag
  • Magnus — Very simple desktop magnifier, showing the area around the mouse pointer in a separate window magnified two, three, four, or five times.
https://kryogenix.org/code/magnus/ || magnusAUR
  • Virtual Magnifying Glass — Simple, customizable and easy-to-use screen magnification tool.
https://magnifier.sourceforge.net/ || vmgAUR
  • xzoom — Zoom, rotate and mirror area of X display.
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/X11/libs/!INDEX.short.html || xzoomAUR

On-screen annotation

  • Gromit-MPX — Tool to make annotations on the screen.
https://github.com/bk138/gromit-mpx || gromit-mpxAUR
  • Pylote — Tool to draw on the screen.
http://pascal.peter.free.fr/pylote-en.html || pylote-gitAUR
  • Screenkey — Tool to display pressed keys.
https://www.thregr.org/~wavexx/software/screenkey/ || screenkey
  • Show Me The Key — A screenkey alternative that works under Wayland via libinput
https://showmethekey.alynx.one || showmethekeyAUR

Mouse

  • Easystroke — Use mouse gestures to initiate commands and hotkeys.
https://github.com/thjaeger/easystroke/wiki || easystrokeAUR
  • KMouseTool — Clicks the mouse whenever the mouse cursor pauses briefly. It was designed to help those with repetitive strain injuries, for whom pressing buttons hurts.
https://apps.kde.org/kmousetool/ || kmousetool
  • Mousetweaks — Accessibility enhancements for pointing devices.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Mousetweaks || mousetweaks

Display managers

See the main article: Display manager#List of display managers.

Desktop environments

See the main article: Desktop environment#List of desktop environments.

Window managers

Console

See also List of applications/Utilities#Terminal multiplexers, which offer some of the functions of window managers for the console.

  • twin — Text-mode window manager.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/twin/ || twinAUR
  • Wmutils — A set of tools for X windows manipulation.
https://github.com/wmutils/core || wmutils-gitAUR

Graphical

See the main article: Window manager#List of window managers.

Composite managers

See the main article: Xorg#List of composite managers.

Wayland Compositors

See the main article: Wayland#Compositors.

Window tilers

  • QuickTile — Lightweight standalone alternative to Compiz Grid plugin.
http://ssokolow.com/quicktile/ || quicktile-gitAUR
  • wumwum — The Window Manager manager. It can turn emwh compliant window managers into a tiling window manager while retaining all initial functionalities.
http://wumwum.sourceforge.net/ || wumwumAUR

Taskbars

See also Wikipedia:Taskbar.

  • Bmpanel — Lightweight, NETWM compliant panel.
https://github.com/nsf/bmpanel2 || bmpanel2AUR
  • Cairo-Dock — Highly customizable dock and launcher application.
https://www.glx-dock.org/[dead link 2024-03-03 ⓘ] || cairo-dock
  • CoreAction — Side bar with some handy gadgets like system loads, calendar, calculator, notes etc. Part of C-Suite.
https://gitlab.com/cubocore || coreactionAUR
  • Dash to Panel — A fully customizable icon taskbar for gnome-shell. Moves the dash into the GNOME main panel, similar to KDE Plasma and Windows 10.
https://github.com/home-sweet-gnome/dash-to-panel || gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-panel
  • eww — Elkowars Wacky Widgets is a standalone widget system made in Rust that allows you to implement your own, custom widgets in any window manager.
https://github.com/elkowar/eww || eww-x11AUR[broken link: package not found], eww-waylandAUR[broken link: package not found]
  • fbpanel — Lightweight, NETWM compliant desktop panel.
https://aanatoly.github.io/fbpanel/ || fbpanelAUR
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomePanel || gnome-panel
  • Latte — Dock based on Plasma frameworks that provides an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and plasmoids.
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/latte-dock || latte-dock-gitAUR
  • Lemonbar — A featherweight bar based on XCB. Provides UTF-8 support, background and foreground colors, text alignment, and not much more.
https://github.com/LemonBoy/bar || lemonbar-gitAUR
  • LXPanel — Lightweight X11 desktop panel and part of the LXDE desktop.
https://lxde.org/ || lxpanel
  • MATE Panel — Panel included in the MATE desktop.
https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-panel/ || mate-panel
  • nwg-dock — GTK-based dock designed for the Sway window manager.
https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-dock || nwg-dockAUR
  • nwg-panel — GTK-based panel designed for the Sway window manager.
https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-panel || nwg-panelAUR
  • PerlPanel — The ideal accompaniment to a light-weight Window Manager such as OpenBox, or a desktop-drawing program like iDesk.
https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/perlpanel || perlpanel-gitAUR
  • Plank — Elegant, simple, clean dock from pantheon desktop environment.
https://launchpad.net/plank || plank
  • Polybar — a fast and easy-to-use tool for creating status bars.
https://github.com/jaagr/polybar || polybar
  • Tint2 — Simple panel/taskbar developed specifically for Openbox.
https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2 || tint2
  • Vala Panel — Gtk3 panel for compositing window managers
https://gitlab.com/vala-panel-project/vala-panel || vala-panel-gitAUR
  • Xfce Panel — Panel included in the Xfce desktop.
https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/start || xfce4-panel
  • xmobar — A lightweight, text-based, status bar written in Haskell.
https://archives.haskell.org/projects.haskell.org/xmobar/ || xmobar
  • Waybar — A customizable taskbar for Wlroots-based Wayland compositors.
https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/ || waybar
  • yambar — A modular and lightweight status panel for X11 and Wayland that goes to great lengths to be both CPU and battery efficient.
https://codeberg.org/dnkl/yambar || yambarAUR

System tray

  • AllTray — Dock other applications into the system tray (notification area).
https://github.com/mbt/alltray || alltray
  • Docker — Docking application which acts as a system tray.
https://icculus.org/openbox/2/docker/ || docker-trayAUR
  • KDocker — Dock any application in the system tray (notification area).
https://github.com/user-none/KDocker || kdockerAUR
  • Stalonetray — Stand-alone freedesktop.org and KDE system tray (notification area) for Xorg. It has full XEMBED support and minimal dependencies: an X11 lib only. Stalonetray works with virtually any EWMH-compliant window manager.
http://stalonetray.sourceforge.net/ || stalonetray
  • Trayer — Lightweight GTK-based system tray (notification area).
https://github.com/sargon/trayer-srg/ || trayer

Application launchers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of desktop application launchers.

  • Albert — Sophisticated, plugin based standalone keyboard launcher.
https://albertlauncher.github.io/ || albertAUR
  • Application Finder — Easy-to-use application launcher from Xfce.
https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/start || xfce4-appfinder
  • Bashrun2 — Provides a different, barebones approach to a run dialog, using a specialized Bash session within a small xterm window.
http://henning-bekel.de/bashrun2/ || bashrun2AUR
  • bemenu — Lightweight dynamic menu inspired by dmenu. Works natively on Wayland.
https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu || bemenu
  • dmenu — Fast and lightweight dynamic menu for X which is also useful as an application launcher.
https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/ || dmenu
  • dmenu-extended — Extension to dmenu for quickly opening files and folders.
https://github.com/markjones112358/dmenu-extended || dmenu-extended-gitAUR
  • dswitcherdmenu-based window switcher that works regardless of workspace or minimization.
https://github.com/Antithesisx/dswitcher || dswitcher-gitAUR
  • fuzzel — Application launcher for wlroots based Wayland compositors, similar to rofi's `drun` mode.
https://codeberg.org/dnkl/fuzzel || fuzzel
  • Gmrun — Lightweight GTK-based application launcher, with the ability to run programs inside a terminal and other handy features.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gmrun/ || gmrun
  • GNOME Do — Application launcher inspired by Quicksilver with many plugins, originally developed for the GNOME desktop.
https://do.cooperteam.net/ || gnome-doAUR
  • Gnome-Pie — Circular application launcher (pie menu) for Linux. It is made of several pies, each consisting of multiple slices.
https://simmesimme.github.io/gnome-pie.html || gnome-pie
  • higgins — Desktop agnostic application launcher, file finder, calculator and more. Plugin based and freely and easily extendable via user-written plugins
https://github.com/kokoko3k/higgins || higgins-gitAUR
  • j4-dmenu-desktop — Very fast dmenu application launcher.
https://github.com/enkore/j4-dmenu-desktop || j4-dmenu-desktop
  • jgmenu — Simple, independent, contemporary-looking X11 menu, designed for scripting, ricing and tweaking.
https://github.com/johanmalm/jgmenu || jgmenu
  • Kupfer — Convenient command and access tool for the GNOME desktop that can launch applications, open documents and access different types of objects and act on them.
https://kupferlauncher.github.io/ || kupfer
  • launch — Simple command for launching applications from a terminal emulator.
https://github.com/silverhammermba/launch || launch-cmdAUR
  • Launchy — Very popular cross-platform application launcher with a plugin-based system used to provide extra functionality.
https://www.launchy.net/ || launchy
  • Lighthouse — Simple scriptable popup dialog to run on X.
https://github.com/emgram769/lighthouse || lighthouse-gitAUR
  • nwg-drawer — GTK-based application drawer designed for the Sway compositor.
https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-drawer || nwg-drawerAUR
  • nwg-menu — GTK-based application menu designed for the Sway compositor.
https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-menu || nwg-menuAUR
  • rofi — Popup window switcher roughly based on superswitcher, requiring only xlib and pango.
https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/ || rofi
  • rlaunch — An extremely fast and light-weight dmenu-like application launcher written in Rust
https://github.com/PonasKovas/rlaunch || rlaunchAUR
  • Synapse — Semantic launcher written in Vala that you can use to start applications as well as find and access relevant documents and files by making use of the Zeitgeist engine.
https://launchpad.net/synapse-project || synapse
  • Ulauncher — Modern and shiny launcher that provides fuzzy search, extensions, and themes
https://ulauncher.io/ || ulauncherAUR
  • vonal — Modern customizable global menu with unlimiting plugin system written in Rust
https://github.com/fxdave/vonal-rust || vonal-binAUR
  • wofi — GTK-based popup window switcher for Wayland compositors such as sway. Inspired by rofi.
https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wofi || wofi
  • wmenu — Dynamic menu for Sway and wlroots based Wayland compositors. Provides a Wayland-native dmenu replacement which maintains the look and feel of dmenu
https://git.sr.ht/~adnano/wmenu || wmenu
  • yofi — Minimalistic menu for Wayland-based compositors.
https://github.com/l4l/yofi || yofiAUR
  • tofi — Tiny dynamic menu, fast and simple dmenu/rofi replacement for Wayland compositors such as sway.
https://github.com/philj56/tofi || tofiAUR

Application menu editors

  • Alacarte — Add or remove applications from the main menu.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/alacarte || alacarte
  • AppEditor — Edit application entries in the application menu.
https://github.com/donadigo/appeditor || appeditor-gitAUR
  • Ezame — Desktop and menu file editor.
https://github.com/linux-man/ezame || ezameAUR
  • KMenuEdit — Edit one of the KDE application launchers.
https://kde.org/ || kmenuedit
  • lxmed — Application menu editor written in Java.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxmed/ || lxmedAUR
  • MenuLibre — Advanced menu editor that provides modern features in a clean, easy-to-use interface.
https://launchpad.net/menulibre || menulibreAUR
  • Meow — Application menu editor written in Java.
https://pnmougel.github.io/meow/ || meow-binAUR
  • Mozo — Change which applications are shown on the main menu.
https://github.com/mate-desktop/mozo || mozo

Wallpaper setters

See also Wikipedia:Wallpaper (computing).

  • bgs — An extremely fast and small background setter for X based on imlib2.
https://github.com/Gottox/bgs/ || bgs-gitAUR
  • esetroot — Eterm's root background setter, packaged separately.
http://www.eterm.org/ || esetrootAUR
  • feh — A lightweight and powerful image viewer that can also be used to manage the desktop wallpaper.
https://feh.finalrewind.org/ || feh
  • Fondo — Find a variety of the most beautiful wallpapers from Unsplash.com.
https://github.com/calo001/fondo || fondoAUR
  • habak — A background changing app.
https://fvwm-crystal.sourceforge.io/ || habakAUR
  • Hanabi — Live Wallpaper for GNOME.
https://github.com/jeffshee/gnome-ext-hanabi || gnome-shell-extension-hanabi-gitAUR
  • Hidamari — Video wallpaper for Linux. Written in Python.
https://github.com/jeffshee/hidamari || hidamariAUR
  • hsetroot — A tool to create compose wallpapers.
https://packages.debian.org/sid/hsetroot || hsetroot
  • HydraPaper — GTK utility to set two different backgrounds for each monitor on GNOME.
https://gabmus.gitlab.io/HydraPaper/ || hydrapaper-gitAUR
  • Hyprpaper — Hyprpaper is a blazing fast wayland wallpaper utility with IPC controls.
https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprpaper || hyprpaper-gitAUR
  • LiveWallpaper — Animated 3D wallpapers.
https://launchpad.net/livewallpaper || livewallpaper
  • mpvpaper — A video wallpaper program for wlroots based wayland compositors.
https://github.com/GhostNaN/mpvpaper || mpvpaperAUR
  • Nitrogen — A fast and lightweight desktop background browser and setter for X windows.
https://github.com/l3ib/nitrogen || nitrogen
  • oguri — An animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland compositors.
https://github.com/vilhalmer/oguri || oguri-gitAUR
  • pacwall — A live wallpaper that shows the dependency graph and status of installed packages.
https://github.com/Kharacternyk/pacwall || pacwall-gitAUR
  • pybgsetter — Multi-backend (hsetroot, Esetroot, habak, feh) to set desktop wallpaper.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88997 || pybgsetterAUR
  • pywal — Changes the wallpaper and creates matching colorschemes for various applications (rofi, i3, terminals)
https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal || python-pywal
  • swaybg — Wallpaper tool for Wayland compositors.
https://github.com/swaywm/swaybg || swaybg
  • swww — Efficient animated wallpaper daemon for wayland, controlled at runtime.
https://github.com/Horus645/swww || swwwAUR
  • Variety — Changes the wallpaper on a regular interval using user-specified or automatically downloaded images.
https://peterlevi.com/variety/ || variety
  • xli — An image display program for X.
https://packages.debian.org/sid/xli || xliAUR[broken link: package not found]
  • Xlivebg — A live wallpaper framework and collection of live wallpapers for the X window system.
http://nuclear.mutantstargoat.com/sw/xlivebg/ || xlivebgAUR
  • xwallpaper — Minimalistic wallpaper setting utility for X.
https://github.com/stoeckmann/xwallpaper || xwallpaper
Tip: In order to avoid installing one more package, you may find convenient to use the display utility from imagemagick or gm display from graphicsmagick. E.g.: display -backdrop -background '#3f3f3f' -flatten -window root image.

Virtual desktop pagers

See also Wikipedia:Pager (GUI).

  • bbpager — Dockable pager for blackbox and other window managers.
http://bbtools.sourceforge.net/download.php?file=6[dead link 2022-09-20 ⓘ] || bbpager
  • fbpager — Virtual desktop pager for fluxbox.
http://www.fluxbox.org/fbpager || fbpager-gitAUR
  • IPager — A configurable pager with transparency, originally developed for Fluxbox.
http://useperl.ru/ipager/index.en.html || ipagerAUR
  • Netwmpager — A NetWM/EWMH compatible pager.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sf-xpaint/files/netwmpager/ || netwmpagerAUR

Desktop widgets

  • gDesklets — System for bringing mini programs (desklets) onto your desktop.
https://launchpad.net/gdesklets || gdeskletsAUR
  • KRuler — Displays on screen a ruler measuring pixels. Part of kde-graphics.
https://apps.kde.org/kruler/ || kruler

Desktop notifications

See: Notification servers.

Clipboard managers

See Clipboard#Managers.

Logout UI

  • clearine — Beautiful Logout UI for X11 window manager
https://github.com/okitavera/clearine || clearine-gitAUR
  • nwg-bar — Configurable button bar for wlroots-based compositors.
https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-bar || nwg-barAUR
https://launchpad.net/oblogout || oblogoutAUR[broken link: package not found]
  • wlogout — Logout menu for wayland
https://github.com/ArtsyMacaw/wlogout || wlogoutAUR

Text art

See ASCII art#Software.